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The Power of NOW A Guide To Spiritual Enlightenment Eckhart Tolle
The Power of NOW A Guide To Spiritual Enlightenment Eckhart Tolle
You cannot be in your body without Time and space only come into
being intensely present in the now. existence when there’s two points
of objects space is only relevant in
Any way you can access a gap in reference to objects. Objects are
the mental stream of thought is a only relevant in reference to space.
gateway portal into the
unmanifested. Time is only in reference to
stillness.
Attention on a flower so deeply
that it silences all other aspects of Silence does not exist without
the mind is a gateway. sound, sound does not exist
Being as the Unmanifested without silence.
It’s up to you to get in touch with a
gateway of your own to the You need to points of reference for
unmanifested. distance to exist.
Forgiveness / Letting Go
Victim identity is the mind saying
the past is more important than the Forgive Yourself
present,
To free yourself of all past suffering
What people did to you is out of forgive yourself and your body and
your control. your mind for the grievance you’ve
held onto, let it pass and let life flow
All there is, is within this moment. through you.
The past cannot prevail against the
now.
No thing or life situation will give
you joy, it may give you pleasure
but joy is sourced internally.
Identification with mind creates a
picture sequence of concepts,
labels, images, judgements that
blocks all true relationships. Power over others is weakness
disguised as strength.
It comes between you and yourself,
you and your companion, you and Conflict and argument are mind
your fellow nature. Between you positions resistances to a particular
and god. position
The split caused by self reflective You’re splitting yourself into I and
consciousness is healed. myself why not just be.
When you free yourself from the Most people need to experience
mind activity of the ego. extreme levels of residence before
they will relinquish control and
You just are. Free of the story. accept.
Free of the the split of Self reflective Before they will forgive.
consciousness.
The awakening of being
Broken from the curse. consciousness.
One relationship you give up is the
relationship with yourself.
When you do that, all other
relationships become love.
When you are identified with form
you are incomplete you are 1/2 of
the whole male or female.
You will always have the pull
towards the opposite sex attraction.
It feels like waves and ripples on
the surface of a vast and deep
Intimate Relationships ocean.
The waves and ripples addictive
desires only brush the surface when
you are grounded in the deep
ocean of true self.
When you’re identified with the
form you have needs, when you are
unidentified you have no needs.
Compassion is the realization of a
deep bond between yourself and all
creatures.
What is the power of the now?
“Nothing other than presence, your
consciousness liberated from
thought forms” -to stay present in
everyday life it helps to stay deeply
rooted within yourself.
Otherwise your mind will drag you
along like a wild river.
What do you mean be deeply
rooted in yourself?
Engaging in Work
You can still be active and enjoy
manifesting and creating new forms
but you won’t be attached to them
you can improve your
circumstances but you won’t label
them as your life or identify with
them as yours.
They are not your life only your life
situation.
More Fulfilling Work
The compulsion to do and resist.
The work is not in how many
breathes we can count without a
thought the work is how gracefully
we can come back to present.
Being
To awake.
This lets us be with the most joyous
of moments as well as the most
devasting and to come back to ok.
The energy that is withdrawn from the mind turns into presence.
Once you start to begin the habit of being present you find it easier to step out of the
dimension of time.
This dramatic realization happens
often in times of deep suffering and
is the most profound state of
conscious realization.
It usually comes about as surrender
amidst intense suffering.
Only life‘s challenges are the true
test of your level of consciousness.
Witness how you respond when
everything is chaotic.
Stress and wanting to be
Practising meditation increases
somewhere else.
your presence, power vibrational
calmness that will transpire through Are you stressed?
chaotic situations. Are you so focussed on the future
that you are using the present as a
When you start you will notice the
means only to get there?
background static of ordinary and
Are you so busy with the future that
presence and you will witness how
the present becomes a means of
rarely if ever your state of being is
getting there?
at ease and peace.
Stress is a result of being here and
And an undercurrent of tension
wanting to be there.
boredom Anxiety or discomfort is to
Being in the present but wanting to
be expected.
be in the future.
Carl Jung & Native Cheif
It’s a split that tears you apart
conversation
inside.
Most white people have tight faces, To live with the split I call insanity,
starring eyes and anxiety ridden and the fact that everyone else is Acute unhappiness can be a
body. The whites always want doing it does not make it any less great awakening.
something, we don’t know what insane.
they want. We think they are crazy. The evil is forcing us towards states
You can walk, walk fast or even run of suffering to help enlighten the
Buddha the root of suffering is the without projecting yourself into the world.
chasing of things to be different future. The only way out is forgiveness to
from they are. the evil.
Do whatever you are doing
presently enjoy the high energy of Hold the frequency of intense
It is not moving in the right
the moment. presence.
direction.
It is the constant thinking and If you were worrying about a future Whether faith is connected to a
Surrender to the Now event what if scenario you were
planning and wanting and lack of deity or not it’s essence lies in
being enjoying and living. identified with mind projecting itself trusting ourselves to discover the
Am I not just temporarily evading
into the future and creating fear. deepest truths on which we can
my problems?
Time block planning. rely.
You can stop this life and health
It’s about realizing there are no
What’s going on inside me. eroding phantom, all you have to
problems only situations, which are
Be at least as interested in what deal with is real life apart from this
to be dealt with now or left alone
goes on inside you as in the imaginary mind projections is this
and experienced as the isness of
outside. moment.
this moment.
Primary reality is internal within.
Secondary reality is external You can never cope with the future
Until they change, or can be
without. you can only cope with now.
changed.
What’s here now. How are you? The right strength mindset
Problems are mind made and How are you denying, avoiding, reactions will summon to get you
cannot survive in the isness of the resisting life? through the next moment.
now.
Surrender to the now.. Accept what Are you waiting to start living?
You become so overwhelmed with is. It’s not uncommon for people to
your life situation that you lose your
Are you polluting the world or spend their whole life waiting to
sense of life of being.
cleaning up the mess? You are start living.
When you create a problem you responsible for your inner space. Waiting is a state of mind basically
create pain. You are responsible for both your saying you want the future more
No matter what happens I will make peace and your suffering. than the now.
no more pain for myself.
LIVE IN YOUR OWN LANE.
You’ve probably noticed in an Suffering is a result of comparing
emergency there is no problem, the judging and associating with
problem is a story in the mind an differences from your surroundings.
emergency forces us to action and
we instinctually respond. Keeping up with the jones. Is real
not just in homes but relationships,
cars, jobs, spiritual enlightenment.
Being is the gateway to freedom.
Separation from the mind, the story.
Life Purpose
How do we reconcile the need for
purpose with living only in the now?
Outter purpose vs inner purpose
have both.
Horizontal plane of what you did
and where you are going.
Vertical dimension of the timeless
Life vs Life Situation being here and now.
It is true my past has created my What you did and what you are
present life situation but it is in this going to do is much less important
situation that makes me unhappy. than How I am experiencing you
now.. create the story all you want
Forget about your life situation for a (do that for your legacy, for people
while and consider your life. you’ll never meet) but all you will be
remembered for is how people
Your life situation exists in time.
experienced you in the now..
Your life is now.
Why not let this be your legacy.
Your life situation is mind stuff, your
life is real. Outter journey may contain 1
million steps, inner journey has only
Finding the narrow gate that leads
1.
to your life is called the now.
This moment. Your outter purpose is only potent
until you realize your inner purpose.
You can improve your life situation The experience of the now.
but you cannot improve your life.
It becomes much more a game.
Succeed in outter purpose fail in
inner peace, gain the world lose
your soul.
The outter purpose is destined to
fail because it is material and a part
of the law of impermanence.
Just like the houses, community
and life of the disasters of The
Bahamas class 5 tornado.
Impermanence
The Buddha once said - I can sum
up all of my teachings in one
sentence.
Flow State
The reason athletes, artists, sports enthusiasts, extreme base jumpers choose
these activities is to lose the illusion of time and be lost in the dimension of the
present.
It is important to note that time is important for practical purposes but not
necessarily required as a concept to run your life.
The lack of being, lost in the world of time in mind allows it to be more sharp
and focussed when you do put it to practice.
We need to use Clock time to run our life but psychological time past and
future is the story of our life.
Clock time includes setting goals learning from the past so we don’t apply the
same mistakes in the future predicting the future by means of patterns and
laws taking appropriate action on the basis of our predictions. And an
elighteneded person is always preferably aware of clock time but loses the
sense of psychological time.
Ask yourself..Is there joy ease and
lightness in what I am doing?
It may not require a change in what
you are doing but how you were
doing it.
How is always more important than
Lighten up your Energy the what.
Pay more attention to the doing,
keep your full attention to what the
moment presents.
Completely accept what is. Give
your full attention to what is.
Whatever you do becomes a
product of quality care and love.
Accept Yourself
There’s no problem with striving for
goals and desires but the challenge
occurs when you start using it as a
substitute to the feeling of being
alive.
The foundation of the building is
your true being; the superstructure
around it is your life situation you
cannot have an enjoyable life
situation without the foundation
sense of well-being in tact.
Gratitude for the fulness of the
present moment right now is true
prosperity.
When you were happy with self you
are happy with everything else.
Self acceptance I am, Is the state of
freedom.
We must stretch ourselves as much
as possible but until then is that
sense of self acceptance we must
Accept What is come back reset.
“Sorry to keep you waiting!
That’s all right I was not waiting I
was just enjoying myself “in joy” my
self. “ - Eckart Tolle
Allowing
Beyond happiness and
unhappiness there is peace.
The difference between inner peace
and happiness, happiness depends
on conditions being perceived as
positive.
Do you truly know what is positive
vs negative?
Some of the greatest failures were
people’s greatest teachings of
reality, humility, Depth and
character.
Complete acceptance of what is,
just is. The only sane way to live.
You are not pretending you are
allowing.
Standing beyond the resistive
patterns of the mind that create
neg /pos polarity towards events.
What if there is something I can do
about the situation? How can I let it
be and change it at the same time?
Wouldn’t action be more effective
than acceptance?
Do what it is you need to do. In the
meantime accept was is.
Free from mind dominance, it
reconnects you with being.
A different frequency of
consciousness.
An intelligence much greater than
the mind takes charge. A different
quality of consciousness will flow
into your doing.